Quotes about Success

Quotes about Success

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Here are some of my favorite quotes. Many of these are from A Daily Dose of the American Dream. I collected these "success quotes" over a number of years. If you have a favorite success quote you'd like to suggest, please send me your favorite quotes.

What good are quotes? A good quote captures a bit of wisdom in a few words. They are almost like a poem -- when a quote is worth its salt -- it makes you think, it inspires, it challenges. Pick out a few quotes that say something to you -- write them down, put them on your bulletin board, memorize them.

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A. A. M. "Success depends on correct timing."

A. A. M. "Success is sweat plus effort."

A. A. M. "Simplicity is the badge of genius. Simplicity is the badge of distinction."

A. A. M. "The prime objective of a company going into business is to make a profit. Ask yourself if everything you do will enhance the profit of the company. This is the prime rule of business."

A. A. M. "Put your knowledge to practical experience and reap the harvest."

A. A. M. "Expect problems and meet them as a friend."

A. A. M. "It isn't what you invent but what you do with what you invent that makes for financial success."

A. A. M. "No man is great in and of himself. He must touch the lives of other great men who will inspire him lift him push him forward and give him confidence."

A. C. Elliott "Every real accomplishment first begins as a dream."

A. C. Elliott "If you want to attract attention make an every day chore exciting and fun."

A. P. Gouthey "Everyone has handicaps. Don't give in to your handicaps."

A. P. Gouthey "He helps others most who shows them how to help themselves."

Abraham Lincoln "Public opinion in this country is everything."

Abraham Lincoln "That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."

Abraham Lincoln "I do the very best I know how the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

Abraham Lincoln "I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions without selfishness or malice and by the help of God I shall continue to do so."

Abraham Lincoln "I will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come."

Adm. HymanG. Rickover "Man's distinction is his determination to think for himself."

Adm.Hyman G. Rickover "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience."

Alan Elliott "The person who works diligently toward a dream and keeps his focus on the goal will wake up some fine morning and realize that he has achieved what he has dreamed."

Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Alexander Hamilton "A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state."

Alexd Arbeloff "Concentrate your resources to win. You have a chance to lose because you might pick the wrong objective. On the other hand if you don't concentrate it's a sure loss."

Alfred P.Sloan "Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it."

American Proverb "Success is a ladder than cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets."

Anonymous "When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise."

Arnold Bennett "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top."

Author Unknown "True creativeness is finding new possibilities in old situations."

Belgian Proverb "It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out."

Benjamin Franklin "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

Bill Murto "Happiness is in your mind and how you think about yourself and what you're doing."

Bill Shaw, president of Grandy's "Our goal is to please the customer and everything we do is designed for that purpose."

Billy Rose "This is the age of the specialist. Charm and good manners are worth up to $30 a week. After that the pay- off is in direct ratio to the amount of specialized know- how in a fellow's head."

Bob Ripley "A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes."

Booker T. Washington "You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him."

Brillat-Savarin "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are."

Bulwer-Lytton "Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

Bulwer-Lytton "In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion."

Byron in The Two Foscari "When we think we lead we most are led."

C. W. Post "An industrial family should be united in purpose as well governed contented and peaceful and the members as courteous to one another as a domestic family."

Calvin Coolidge "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Carlyle "Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at the distance, but to do what is clearly at hand."

Cato "It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."

Cervantes "Diligence is the matter of good fortune."

Chamfort "Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door."

Charles Gow "Observation is more than seeing; it is knowing what you see and comprehending its significance."

Charles Kettering "The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

Charles Spahr "A business may prosper temporarily because of fortuitous circumstances but in the long run an enterprise needs a management team that can effectively respond to change in the environment in which it operates."

Chesterfield "I recommend that you take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves."

Classic Crossword Puzzles "A short cut is often the quickest way to some place you weren't going."

Claude Pepper "Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop peddling."

Clinton Davidson "If you want to become the greatest in your field no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else."

Colton "The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

Councillor "We should seek the atmosphere and the surroundings which call forth the best that is in us."

Dagobert Runes "Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think."

Dale Carnegie "Any fool can criticize condemn and complain - and most fools do."

Dale Carnegie "When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid."

Daniel Webster "If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible our country will go on prospering."

David D. Hewitt "To maintain maximum attention it's hard to beat a good big mistake."

David Laird "People can do but don't do without motives to keep going."

David Lloyd George "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated."

Disraeli "There are three kinds of lies: lies damn lies and statistics."

Donald A. Adams "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity."

Dr. Beranger "To excel is to live."

Dr. Harvey Cushing "A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness."

Dr. Paul Parker "People are the portals through which men pass into power and leadership."

Dr. Paul Parker "The removal of human friction is 90 percent of the problem of handling people."

Dr. Paul Parker "A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured."

Dr. Paul Parker "Assume in your imagination as already yours the goal you aspire to have."

E. F. Girard "Determination and gumption will carry a man far."

E. F. Girard "There are efforts and there are results. And it is the strength of the effort that usually determines the size of the result."

E. S. March "Look back often and see what made our country the great nation it is today."

Edgar A. Guest "He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done. and he did it."

Edward Eggleston "Persistent people begin their success when others end in failure."

Edward Kramer "There are so many wonderful things in your every day experience lucrative opportunities glorious occasions that do not exist for you because you do not have the vision for discerning them."

Edwin Markham "We have committed the Golden Rule to memory now let us commit it to life."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox "'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal and not the storms of life."

Emerson "Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Emerson "Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm."

Emerson "A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

English Proverb "Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

Eric Sevareid "To a child this world is brand-new and gift-wrapped; Disney tried to keep it that way for adults . . ."

Estee Lauder "If you put the product into the customer's hands it will speak for itself if it's something of quality."

F. D. Roosevelt "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Fenelon "You can tell how big a man is by observing how much it takes to discourage him."

Flora Whittemore "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

Frances Lewis "The company is for people, people are not for the company. I always feel the company is for our employees customers and stockholders they don't exist for the company."

Francis Bacon "Fortitude and the power of fixing attention are the two marks of a great mind."

Fredrick Langbridge "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud the other the stars."

from "[Tiffany's] calms me down right away the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there."

From an Alka-Seltzer ad "Try it you'll like it!"

From Good Taste Waste "Congratulations. Your Designer Trash Bags show everyone you are a person of style and refinement."

G. B. Shaw "Common sense is instinct and enough of it is genius."

G. H. Lorimer "Back of every noble life there are principles which have fashioned it."

General George S. Patton "If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking."

General George S. Patton "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do."

Genesis 1:31 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day."

George S. Parker "Our pens will write in any language."

George S. Patton "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

George W. Carver "When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world."

German saying "He who has not tasted bitter does not know what sweet is."

Glenn Frank "The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation."

Goethe "To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability."

Goethe "Every man is a builder of a temple called his body."

Goethe "Man seeks his inward unity but his real progress on the path depends on his capacity to refrain from distorting reality in accordance with his desires."

Goethe "The Man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do or think you can begin it."

Grenville Kleiser "The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things."

Grenville Kleiser "Let your intentions be good embodied in good thoughts cheerful words and unselfish deeds and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which you can work and play and serve."

Grenville Kleiser "Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies."

GustaveLe Bon "The conditions of success in life are the possession of judgment experience initiative and character."

H. Ross Perot "The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed."

H. W. Austin "Genius -- that power which dazzles humans is oft but perseverance in disguise."

H. W. Beecher "A reputation for good judgment for fair dealing for truth and for rectitude is itself a fortune."

Harry Emerson Fosdick "Great living starts with a picture held in your imagination of what you would like to do or be."

Harry S. Truman "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want to do and then advise them to do it."

Hayes "Things do not happen in this world they are brought about."

Helen Keller "When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another."

Helen Keller "We can do anything we want to do if we stick with it long enough."

Helen Keller "Many persons have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Helmut Schmidt "Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps."

Henry Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry J. Kaiser "Love people and serve them."

Henry J. Kaiser "Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you."

Henry Marchant "To be a success in business be daring be first be different."

Henry Miller "Learn the art of being aware; our success depends upon our power to perceive to observe and know."

Henry Miller "Render a service if you would succeed. This is the supreme law of life."

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg "Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold."

Hubbard "It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."

Hugh Blair "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."

Italian Proverb "To him that is determined it remains only to act."

Italian Proverb "From listening comes wisdom."

J. G. Holland "The mind grows by what it feeds on."

J. G. Holland "Who never walks where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries."

J. Petit-Senn "Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance."

James Conant "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

James Garfield "Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

James R. Adams "Advertising is the mouthpiece of business."

JesusChrist "And whoever would have you go one mile with him, go with him two."

Joe Girard "If you throw enough spaghetti against the wall some if it is going to stick."

John Bogart "If a man bites a dog this is news."

John Hegwood "Two heads are better than one."

John Johnson's mother "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

John Lubbock "It is indeed astonishing how many great men have been poor."

Johnson "The business of life is to go forward."

Joseph Addison "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise."

Joseph Addison "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for."

Josephine Garis Cochraine "If nobody else is going to invent a dishwasher I'll do it myself."

Josh White "Ambition's a good thing if you've got it headed in the right direction."

Kingsley "I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being."

Latin Proverb "The clothes make the man."

Longfellow "Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

Longfellow "All your strength is in union all your danger is in discord."

Lord Brougham "The test of the progress of mankind will be their appreciation of the character of Washington."

Lord Chesterfield "Take great care to be dressed like the reasonable people of our own age in the place where you are; whose dress is never spoken of one way or the other."

Louis Grafe "Professional pride in your work is absolutely essential to adequate effort."

Louis Pasteur "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Luke10:7 "The laborer is worthy of his hire."

Manley Hall "A principle is never useful or living or vital until it is embodied in action."

Martin Vanbee "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Marva Collins "You can't weep or talk your way through a mess. When you come up against a problem you have to work your way through it."

Mary Crowley "Real wisdom is looking at the world from God's point of view."

Michelangelo "If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."

Napoleon Hill "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

Napoleon Hill "Successful men in all callings never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose business or profession."

Nashua Cavalier "Great moments start in obscurity with obscure people and sweep on to success if those obscure people are servants of great ideas."

Noah Webster "Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God."

Norman Vincent Peale "To get along with people and be successful in life forget yourself and learn to love and be interested in other people."

O. W. Holmes "The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

Oliver Wendell Holmes "The human race is divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something and those who sit and inquire Why wasn't it done the other way?"

Oren Arnold "A smooth sea never made a good sailor."

Philip Armour "A man should have the courage and conviction to do what is right and what is for the interest of his principles no matter whether he represents a corporation or an individual."

Phillip B. Crosby "Integrity is as integrity does."

Plato "Necessity is the mother of invention."

Poincelot "Good taste is the flower of good sense."

Propertius "Let everyone engage in the business with which he is best acquainted."

Proverbs "The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot."

Proverbs. "Wisdom . . . is more precious than jewels; and nothing you desire compares with her."

Quarles "Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune."

Ray L. Smith "The successful businessman is training an understudy if he is as wise as he is successful."

Revelation "You are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold I will spit you out of My mouth."

Richard DeVos' father "Go into business for yourself. Don't be afraid to take risk. It's the only way to succeed."

Richard Manoogian "Nothing we develop is the stuff dreams are made of they just make lots of money."

Robert Frost "What is required is sight and insight. Then you might add one more: excite."

Robert Frost "I always entertain great hopes."

Robert Herrick "Attempt the end and never stand in doubt; nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

Robert Schuller "When you have exhausted all the possibilities remember this: You haven't."

Roge R Babson "Buried seeds may grow but buried talents never."

Roger Babson "There isn't a plant or business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it."

Roy L. Smith "He has an advantage in any deal whose merchandise will stand inspection."

Russell Conwell "I attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best if only driving a tack straight."

Samuel Johnson Rasselas "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

Scudder Parker "People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be."

Shakespeare "I have neither words nor worth nor actions nor utterance nor the power of speech to stir men's blood: I only speak right on."

Shakespeare "Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

Shakespeare "The greatest truths are the simplest: so are the greatest men."

Shakespeare "An enterprise when fairly once begun should not be left till all that ought is won."

St. Francis "Do few things but do them well."

Stanifer "Don't be discouraged. It is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."

Stanislas "Probably the world's greatest humorist was the man who named them easy payments."

Swift "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

The Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Theodore Roosevelt "That coffee is good to the last drop."

Thomas Buxton "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable."

Thomas Cole. "Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once."

Thomas Edison "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Fuller "When fortune smiles embrace her."

Timex Ad "They take a licking and keep on ticking."

TomPeters in A Passion for Excellence "The power of listening: it borders on the bizarre."

Unknown "Follow the river and you will get to the sea."

Unknown "At a great bargain make a pause."

Unknown "Experience is the best teacher only the school fees are heavy."

Unknown "Today's dream is tomorrow's reality. Success begins with a dream but that is only the first step."

Unknown "The world wants leaders, thinkers, doers, men of power and action men who can step out from the crowd and lead unstead of follow."

V. Adler "The mainspring behind all of life is motive."

VictorKiam "Entrepreneurs don't sit on their haunches waiting for something to happen. They make things happen."

Viking's motto "The greatest pleasure in life lies in doing that which others say cannot be done."

Vince Lombardi "I hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection."

Virgil "For they can conquer who believe they can."

Wally Amos "It's important to start . . . start from right where you are."

Welsh Proverb "Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food."

Will Rogers "Some folks figure it's a compliment to be called broad- minded. Back home broad-minded is just another way of sayin' a feller's too lazy to form an opinion."

William Feather "A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about."

William H. Danforth "Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!"

William James "Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture."

William James "An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation."

William Penn "Opportunities should never be lost because they can hardly be regained."

William Simms "Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that truth be always present in your mind and work without cessation."

WilliamSimms "Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time."

Wilson Milzer "A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something."

Winston Churchill "If you mean to profit learn to please."

Winston Churchill "It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

WoodrowWilson "I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow."

A. A. M. "Don't dodge difficulties; meet them. greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer."

A. B. Zu Tavern "All progress, all achievement is the story of imagination."

Abraham Lincoln "Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way."

Abraham Lincoln "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go."

Al Decker "No idea is worth anything unless you have the guts to back it up."

Albert Einstein "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

American adage "Ideas are a dime a dozen."

Anatole France "To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything."

Andrew Jackson "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."

Anonymous "We want something different."

Anonymous "The first part of measurement of any man is that of quality."

Anonymous "There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand."

Apocrypha "The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."

Arthur Rubinstein (attributed to) "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"

Balzac "Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual."

Beaumont and Fletcher "There is an hour appointed in each man's life to make his happiness, if he then seizes it."

BerryCollege's motto "Not to be ministered unto but to minister."

Bible "I was in need and you helped me."

Bible "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."

Bible "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Bible "Not greedy for money but eager to serve."

Bible "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Caroline Gascoigne "An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won."

Castro Convertible ad "Even a little child can do it."

Charles Schawb "I have yet to find a man however exalted his station who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

Charles Schwab "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

Chinese proverb "A trip of a thousand miles is begun with a single step."

Clinton Davidson "Don't do anything haphazardly, don't scratch the surface, don't give a job part-time attention; give it your best."

Colton "When we cannot invent we may at least improve."

Davy Crockett "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."

Demosthenes "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Denis Waitley in Seeds of Greatness "Successful individuals have game plans and purposes that are clearly defined to which they constantly refer."

Disraeli "All of us encounter at least once in our life some individual who utters words that make us think forever."

Disraeli "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity."

Doctor Fern "A man is no greater than his dream, his ideal, his hope and his plan."

Don Quixote "I can tell where my own shoe pinches me."

Douglas Jerold "Keep your eyes and ears open if you desire to get on in the world."

Dr. William Menninger "Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."

Ecclesiastes. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to dodo it with thy might."

Edmund Gibson "The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves."

Edward de Bobo "Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea."

Emerson "Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men or they are not better than dreams."

Emerson "Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Ernest Reeves "Every day is a new day with new possibilities and unlimited opportunity."

Ewing M. Kauffman "Those who apply themselves unswervingly to a task are amply rewarded."

F. R. Kappel, president of AT&T "You have to have an objective but you also have to give the brains full freedom."

Federal Express Ad "When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight."

Florenz Ziegfeld'sdying words. "Curtain! Fast Music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good . . ."

Frank Perdue "Baldness. Handsome in a man, beautiful in a chicken."

From Executive Power "A common misconception is that goals are mere dreams."

From the PET ROCK Manual "Some PET ROCK owners have found that the ticking of an alarm clock placed near the box has a soothing effect; especially at night."

Galileo "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help to find it within himself."

Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread."

George Eliot "I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

Goldsmith in The Traveller "Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law."

H. F. Kletzing "It is not what comes into a man's hands that enriches him but what he saves from slipping through them."

Helen Keller "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another."

J. B. Fuqua "No typewriter is as warm as the human voice, and no phone call can take the place of eyeball-to-eyeball contact."

J. G. Saxe "'Tis wise to learn 'tis Godlike to create."

J. R. Lowell "Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius."

James Beattie "The force wherewith anything strikes the mind is generally in proportion to the degree of attention bestowed upon it."

Jesus Christ "I have come to give you life, and to give it more abundantly."

Jim Pohn "For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

John A Shedd "Opportunities are seldom labeled."

John Deere "If we don't improve our product somebody else will and we will lose our trade."

John Stuart Mill "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."

Josiah Royce "Thinking is like living and dying. Each of us has to do it for himself."

Julius Erving "I have been a player who always wanted to get results first and foremost."

Kleenex Ad "Don't put a cold in your pocket."

Kossuth "It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes."

La Fontaine "A good appearance is at a premium everywhere."

Lincoln "God must have loved the plain people, He made so many of them."

Longfellow "Music is the universal language of mankind."

LymanAbbott "Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself."

Macaulay "Advertising is to business what steam is to machinery the great propelling power."

Madeleine Bridges "Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."

Marchant "Make big plans but change your plans as time changes."

Marchant "There are no red-hot door knobs, go in and see the people."

Mark Twain "The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds."

Michael DeMontaigne "It is good to rule and polish our brains against those of others."

Michael Eisner "As long as you act as if you're coming from behind, you have a shot at staying ahead."

Miguel de Cervantes "All will come out in the washing."

Napoleon "The human race is governed by its imagination."

Norman Cousins "If has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

Old Saying "Practice makes perfect."

Old saying "The customer is always right."

Old saying "If at first your don't succeed, try, try again."

Old saying "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Oren Arnold "You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it."

Patrick McGovern "What we try to do is build a total common family."

Paul Galvin "Now let's use our nutpickers on this problem and then we'll decide what it is we have to do. Then let's do it."

Pearl Buck "The greatest need in the world today is for people of sweet disposition, good character and harmonious nature."

Plato "The life that is unexamined is not worth living."

Proverbs "The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied."

Proverbs 29:18 "Without a vision the people perish."

Publius Syrus "Everyone excels in something in which another fails."

R.W. Sampson "Life will do a lot of growling but it won't hurt you unless you let it."

Richard Henry Lee, June 7, 1776 "Gentlemen, I make the motion that the United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent."

Richter "The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind."

Robert Swanson "Get the best! And get there before anybody else does."

Ronald E. Osborn "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Russian Proverb "With some people even their roosters seem to lay eggs."

Shakespeare "The soul of this man is his clothes."

Sirjang Lal Tandon as quoted in Forbes "One man's fat margins are another man's opportunities."

Socrates "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Stanley Arnold "Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."

T.L. Travers from Mary Poppins "A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down."

Tacitus "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

Tennyson "The old order changeth, yielding place to new."

Theodore Roosevelt "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

Thomas J. Watson "Wisdom is the power to put our time and knowledge to proper use."

Thomas Jefferson "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Thoreau "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau "Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

Thoreau "Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something."

Unknown "The strength of an organization is not I. It is we."

Unknown "Act the part and you will become the part."

Unknown "Never forget a customer, never let a customer forget you."

Unknown "Satisfied customers almost invariably become active agents for the advancement of the company's business."

Unknown "Tomorrow's growth depends on the use we make of today's materials and experiences."

Unknown "One man's work is another man's fun."

Victor Hugo "Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

W. E. Channing "Be true to your highest conviction."

W. Somerset Maugham "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them for the most part humble, tolerant and firm. Failure makes people bitter and cruel."

Walpole "To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom I know."

Warren Bennis "Leadership is like the Abominable Snowman whose foot prints are every where but who is nowhere to be seen."

William James "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

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